<p>Any famous current students or recent graduates (last 15 years) from dartmouth.</p>
<p>that was meant to be a question</p>
<p>i don't think there have been any famous people. but we can name famous people who COULD HAVE gone to dartmouth if they weren't so stupid and went to other ivy league schools.</p>
<p>harvard:
natalie portman
matt damon</p>
<p>columbia:
julia stiles</p>
<p>brown:
leelee sobieski</p>
<p>nyu (not ivy but):
mary kate olsen
ashley olsen</p>
<p>did matt damon really go to harvard or was that just a rumor...also, i hate the 60sec rule</p>
<p>yes 60sec rule is only thing standing between dartmouth and sweet victory. because i would so be spamming this board.</p>
<p>matt damon went to harvard but dropped out because he realized he didn't need it.</p>
<p>one more: conan o'brien (harvard)</p>
<p>one more: rivers cuomo of weezer (harvard)</p>
<p>jodie foster- harvard</p>
<p>edward norton (yale)</p>
<p>Jodie Foster went to Yale, not Harvard.</p>
<p>So did Claire Danes, Sarah Hughes (ice skater), one of the Bush twins...</p>
<p>Princeton: Brooke Shields, David Duchovny of X-Files</p>
<p>oh thanks......</p>
<p>rory gilmore - yale</p>
<p>wait, is that real life or the girl on gillmore girls?</p>
<p>just on the show. the actress who plays her went to NYU i think</p>
<p>i thought she wanted to go to harvard</p>
<p>she's definitely @ yale now. don't know what happened with harvard because i don't watch the show</p>
<p>yea i saw one episode...didnt like it</p>
<p>This will repeat a lot, but here I think these lists are pretty comprehensive.</p>
<p>YALE</p>
<p>Nobel laureates
George Akerlof (B.A. 1962). Economics, 2001
Raymond Davis. Physics, 2002.
John F. Enders (B.A. ca. 1921). Physiology or Medicine, 1954.
John Fenn (Ph.D. ca. 1940). Chemistry, 2002.
Murray Gell-Mann (B.S. 1948). Physics, 1954.
Alfred G. Gilman. Physiology or Medicine, 1994.
Ernest Lawrence (Ph.D. 1925). Physics, 1939. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are named for him.
Joshua Lederberg (Ph.D. 1948). Physiology or Medicine, 1958.
David Lee (Ph.D. 1959). Physics, 1996.
Sinclair Lewis (B.A. 1908). Literature, 1930.
Lars Onsager (Ph.D. 1935). Chemistry, 1968.
Dickinson Richards. Physiology or Medicine, 1956.
William Vickrey (B.S. 1935). Economics, 1996.
George Whipple (A.B. 1900). Physiology or Medicine, 1934.
Eric Wieschaus (Ph.D.). Physiology or Medicine, 1995.
Technology & innovation
Francis S. Collins (Ph.D.), director, Human Genome Project
Lee De Forest (B.S. 1896, Ph.D 1899), inventor of the triode
W. Edwards Deming (Ph.D. 1928), "total quality management" (TQM) guru
Irving Fisher (B.A. 1888, Ph.D. 1891), economist, "father of monetarism"
J. Willard Gibbs (1858, Ph.D. 1863), mathematician, physical chemist, thermodynamicist, known for Gibb's Phenomenon
Grace Hopper (Ph.D. 1934), inventor of COBOL programming language
Art Laffer (B.A. 1963), economist, best known for the "Laffer Curve"
Paul D. MacCready, "Engineer of the Century," won the Kremer Prize for first human-powered flying machine, pioneer in solar-powered flight
Saunders MacLane (B.A. 1930), mathematician, one of the founders of "category theory"
Jordan Mechner (B.A. 1985), videogame developer, created Prince of Persia
Samuel Morse (1810), telegraph pioneer, inventor of Morse code
Harry Nyquist (Ph.D. 1917), engineer known for the Nyquist theorem
John Ousterhout, creator of the Tcl programming language
Ronald Rivest (B.S. 1969), computer scientist, the "R" in the RSA cryptography, 2002 Turing Award receipient
George B. Selden, Awarded the first United States patent for an automobile in 1895
Benjamin Spock (B.A. 1925), child psychology guru
Eli Whitney (1792), inventor of the cotton gin
Founders, entrepreneurs, & CEOs
Robert M. Bass, (B.A. 1971) President, Keystone, Inc.
Roland W. Betts, investor, film producer, owner of Chelsea Piers, lead owner in George W. Bushs Texas Rangers partnership
John Thomas Daniels, founder, Archer Daniels Midland
Ted Forstmann, co-founder & senior partner of Forstmann Little & Company, member of the Forbes 400
Robert Glaser, (B.A., M.A.) founder & CEO, RealNetworks
Bing Gordon, co-founder, executive vice-president, and chief creative officer of Electronic Arts
Roberto Goizueta, former CEO, Coca-Cola (namesake of Emory University's business school)
Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME Magazine.
Charles B. Johnson, chairman, Franklin Templeton Investments
Mitch Kapor, founder, Open Source Applications Foundation, investor (Kapor Enterprises), former founder & CEO, Lotus Software
Herbert Kohler, chairman & president, Kohler Company
Clarence King, founder of the US Geological Survey (USGS)
Edward Lampert, founder & chairman, ESL Investments (hedge fund), bought Kmart, now acquiring Sears
Henry Luce (B.A. 1920), co-founder of TIME Magazine.
John Franklyn Mars, CEO, Mars, Incorporated (as in Mars & M&M candy)
Robert Moses, middle 20th century New York City construction czar
Gifford Pinchot, founder of the United States Forest Service
Wilbur Ross, investor, steel magnate, member of the Forbess 400
Stephen A. Schwarzman, co-founder & CEO of the Blackstone Group, member of the Forbes 400
Robert Sargent Shriver III (Law), part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles
Timothy Perry Shriver, CEO of the Special Olympics
Frederick W. Smith, founder & CEO, FedEx
Harold Stanley, founder, Morgan Stanley
Richard Thalheimer, founder & CEO of The Sharper Image
Juan Trippe, founder & CEO, Pan Am
Frederick E. Weyerhaeuser, founder, Weyerhaeuser
Academics
Richard H. Brodhead, president of Duke University
Gerhard Casper (L.L.M, 1962; Honorary Doctorate, 2000) Ninth president of Stanford University, former provost at the University of Chicago, member of the Yale Corporation
Alan Dershowitz, law professor at Harvard University
Jonathan Dickinson, founder of Princeton University
Daniel Coit Gilman, first president of Johns Hopkins University
William Rainey Harper, first president of the University of Chicago
Lawrence Lessig (J.D. 1989), copyright activist, law professor at Stanford University
Reinhold Niebuhr (DIV 1914), author, theologian
Camille Paglia (Ph.D.), author of Sexual Personae
Alvin Plantinga (Ph.D.), one of the foremost Christian philosophers, professor at University of Notre Dame
John Griggs Thompson (1955), mathematician, winner of the Fields Medal in 1970
Andrew Dickson White, first president of Cornell University
Yung Wing (1854), first Chinese person to receive an American college degree
Presidents & vice presidents
George H. W. Bush (B.A. 1948), President of the United States (1989-1993), Vice President of the United States (1981-1989)
George W. Bush (B.A. 1968), President of the United States (2001-present), former Governor of Texas
Karl Carstens (L.L.M. 1949), Fifth President of Germany (1979-1984)
John Calhoun (B.A. 1804), Seventh Vice President of the United States, for two different presidents, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson; Senator; Member of the House of Representatives; Secretary of State in the Tyler presidential administration
Richard B. Cheney<em>, Vice President of the United States (2001-present)
William Jefferson Clinton (J.D.), President of the United States (1993-2001), former Governor of Arkansas
Gerald Ford (J.D.), President of the United States (1974-1977), Vice President of the United States (1973-1974), member of the House of Representatives
William Howard Taft (1878), President of the United States (1909-1913), Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930)
Supreme Court justices
Henry Baldwin (1797), Supreme Court justice (1830-1844)
Davis J. Brewer (1856), Supreme Court justice (1889-1910)
Henry B. Brown (1856), Supreme Court justice (1891-1906)
Oliver Ellsworth (Class of 1766</em>), Supreme Court justice (1796-1800)
Abe Fortas (J.D. 1933), Supreme Court justice (1965-1969)
Sherman Minton (YLS one-year degree, 1917), Supreme Court justice (1949-1956)
George Shiras, Jr. (1853), Supreme Court justice (1892-1903)
Potter Stewart, Supreme Court justice (1958-1991)
William Strong (1828, GRD 1831, briefly attended YLS), Supreme Court justice (1870-1880)
William Howard Taft (1878), President of the United States (1909-1913), Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930)
Clarence Thomas (J.D. 1974), Supreme Court Justice (1991-present)
Morrison R. Waite (1837), Chief Justice of the United States (1874-1888)
William B. Woods (1845), Supreme Court justice (1881-1887)
Byron White, Supreme Court Justice (1962-1993)</p>
<p>YALE (cont.)</p>
<p>Other
Dean Acheson, (BA 1915) United States Secretary of State in the Truman presidential administration
Cecilia Altonaga (J.D.), federal judge, first Cuban American woman to be appointed as a federal judge in the United States
John Ashcroft, U.S. Attorney General (2001-2005), U.S. Senator (1993-2001), Governor of Missouri (1985-1993)
Les Aspin, Secretary of Defense, U.S. Congressman
Roger Sherman Baldwin (1811), Governor of Connecticut, United States Senator
David Boies, famous lawyer (Microsoft antitrust, Bush v. Gore, Napster v. RIAA)
David Boren, U.S. Senator
L. Paul Bremer, ambassador
William F. Buckley, political pundit
McGeorge Bundy, former Cabinet official
Edmund Gerald "Jerry" Brown, Jr. (J.D. 1964), Mayor of Oakland, California (1999-present), Governor of California (1975-1983)
Hillary Clinton (J.D.), U.S. Senator, New York (2001-present)
Sir Daryl Dawson, former justice of the High Court of Australia
Mark Dayton, U.S. Senator, Minnesota (2000-present)
Howard Dean, Governor of Vermont (1991-2003)
William H. Donaldson, Chairman of the S.E.C. (2003-present), co-founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette
David Gergen, political pundit, worked as an advisor for the Republican and Democratic Presidential administrations of Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton
Porter Goss (B.A. 1960), CIA director (2004-present), Florida congressman
Stephen Hadley, (J.D. 1972), National Security Adviser
Nathan Hale, patriot & martyr, "I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
James Jeffords, U.S. Senator, Vermont (1989-present)
John Kerry, U.S. Senator, Massachusetts (1985-present)
Tony Knowles, Governor of Alaska (1994-2002)
Paul Krugman, respected economist, Princeton professor, NY Times columnist
Joseph Lieberman, U.S. Senator, Connecticut (1989-present)
Gary Locke, Governor of Washington (1997-2005)
Edwin Meese, former United States Attorney General
John Negroponte (B.A. 1960), first U.S. Director of National Intelligence (2005-present), first ambassador to post-Saddam Iraq (2004-2005)
Bill Nelson, U.S. Senator, Florida (2000-present)
Marvin Olasky (B.A. 1971), conservative pundit
George Pataki, Governor of New York (1995-present)
Clark T. Randt, Jr., U.S. ambassador to China (2001-present)
Sargent Shriver, main organizer and first director of the Peace Corps. Husband of Eunice Kennedy, and father of Maria Shriver (news journalist and wife of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger).
Henry L. Stimson, (B.A. 1888), United States Secretary of State in the Hoover presidential administration
Alphonso Taft, (B.A. 1933, Law) Attorney General and Secretary of War in the Ulysses S. Grant presidential administration.
Robert Taft, Governor of Ohio (1999-present)
Cyrus Vance, (B.A. 1939, Law 1942) United States Secretary of State in the Carter presidential administration
Pete Wilson, Governor of California (1991-1999)
Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico (1994-2000)
History, literature, art & music
Stephen Vincent Ben</p>
<p>DARTMOUTH</p>
<p>Michael Arad class of 1991
Kanichi Asakawa class of 1899
Salmon P. Chase class of 1826
Dinesh D'Souza class of 1983
Louise Erdrich class of 1976
Robert Frost class of 1896
Theodor Seuss Geisel aka Dr. Seuss class of 1925
Louis Gerstner class of 1963
John Hart class of 1975
Jeffrey Immelt class of 1978
E.E. Just class of 1907
Everett Koop class of 1937
Norman Maclean class of 1924
Robert Reich class of 1968
Nelson Rockefeller class of 1930
Fred Rogers transferred to seminary
Steven Roth class of 1962
Andrew Shue class of 1989
Sylvanus Thayer class of 1807
Paul Tsongas class of 1962
Daniel Webster class of 1801</p>
<p>The list of Harvard people is too large to include here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_people%5B/url%5D">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard_University_people</a>.</p>